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village of Cherepovo

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Cherepovo is a village in South Bulgaria, part of Harmanli municipality, Haskovo region.

The village is situated in a small hollow on the western slopes of the Sakar Mountain. It lies on the road Harmanli-Topolovgrad that connects Kardzhali and Haskovo regions with the Black Sea and Burgas. It is located 21 km southwest of Topolovgrad, 25 km northeast of Harmanli, 35 km north of Svilengrad and 63 km east of Haskovo.

Its altitude is 484 m.

Population is nearly 200 people.

The climate is temperate-continental. Summer here is hot and dry and winters - mild. In winter there are periods of heavy snow, low temperatures and large snowfalls. Spring is characterized by a rapid increase in temperature. 

The small village is electrified and there is only one store and a church. The closest schools and medical facilities are in the municipal center Topolovgrad, an there is kindergarten in village of Hlyabovo (about 12 km northeast).

The main livelihood of the population is farming and tobacco growing.

In the village there are traces of active life for millennia. There are many megalithic monuments, most of them dolmens, tumuli tombs, cromlechs. Today you can see about 18 dolmens - in Beleket bair area and a large chromelch in the area of Mollova koria. Above the high rocks, where the Karakolyovata hole is, rises Kaleto - representing Thracian fortress of the pre-Roman era. There are also found evidences that there was life in the land of Cherepovo since the times of the Roman Empire, and in medieval Bulgarian kingdoms.

Several years ago about 10 British families bought properties in Cherepovo.

Source and picture: http://bg.wikipedia.org

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